Directors Guild of America President Jack Shea today announced the DGA's nominees for Outstanding Directorial Achievement for 1998 in Documentary and the television categories of Daytime Serials and Children's Programs. The winners will be announced at the 51st Annual DGA Awards Dinner on Saturday, March 6, 1999 at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.

The nominees for the Directors Guild of America Award for Outstanding Directorial Achievement in Documentary for 1998 are (in alphabetical order):

This is Diamond's third DGA Award nomination, and second this year. He won the Award in the Musical Variety category in 1995 for Some Enchanted Evening, Celebrating Oscar Hammerstein II, and was nominated again in that category this year for Savion Glover - Stomp, Slide & Swing in Performance at The White House.

This is Hochberg's third DGA Award nomination. She won the DGA Award in 1987 for the Afterschool Special "Just a Regular Kid: An AIDS Story," and again in 1989 for the Wonderworks episode "Jacob Have I Loved."

This is Margolin's third DGA Award nomination. He was nominated in 1991 for his direction of the Northern Exposure episode "Goodbye to All That," and won in 1996 for the children's program Salt Water Moose.

RON OLIVER"Cry of the Cat" (Goosebumps) - Fox

This is Oliver's second DGA Award nomination. He was nominated in this category last year for the Goosebumps episode "The Perfect School."